Here's what I think are the important things to absorb from the third week's
reading:
From ULSA "Chapter 6 -- The Filesystem"
Filesystems include not only simple files and directories, but also
pseudo filesystems of various varieties (/proc, tmpfs, /dev/shm, /sys,
and so forth)
Pathnames can be either be absolute (start with "/") or relative.
Mounting and unmounting.
Popular organizations for the file tree (viz., man hier).
Typical tools like ls, fuser, rm, ln.
Permissions and ownership (recall previous chapter).
From ULSA "Chapter 7 -- Adding New Users"
Understand /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow schemes.
Know that MD5 is *not* useful for any type of security scheme (book
is not up-to-date on this point.)
Initial file set up for an account, and /etc/skel.
From MWS2008R2 "Chapter 4 -- Windows Server 2008 IPv4"
Understand that Microsoft has made many improvements in TCP and
and thus services built around TCP; however, the benefits can
be constrained by your wider network.
From MWS2008R2 "Chapter 5 -- DNS and Naming in Server 2008 and Active Directory"
DNS concepts: FQDN, HOSTS file, DNS name servers, recursion, forwarding,
DNS: DDNS and DHCP. Split DNS.